Celebrate!
We think 2019 has been one of our best yet! Here’s our Sheffield CU year in numbers…
- 45,287 children and young people with CU credits in Sheffield
- 3,336,387 CU credits awarded so far
- 2,422 CU out of school activities registered with us in 2019 (and counting!)
- 73 schools signed up and engaged with Sheffield Children’s University
- 223 Learning Destinations (approved activity providers) participating across Sheffield. 85 Learning Destinations were revalidated in 2019 to ensure they were continuing to deliver high quality out of school activities.
- 4,000 Gold awards, 5,000 Silver & 6,500 Bronze awards have been issued during 2019. There have been an amazing 85,000 CU Awards issued since 2008 proving just how talented and committed Sheffield children, young people and families are to their out of school learning!
- The 100th Sheffield CU Gold Award Ceremony was celebrated across 3 extra special ceremonies in November. This gave us time to reflect on our growth over the years which started with 1 annual ceremony for 70 award winners in 2009 and now, there were 12 ceremonies for over 4,000 award winners hosted by the team in 2019!
- 16 Learning Destinations delivered 48 free taster sessions as part of the 5th annual Sheffield CU Festival of Fun. Collectively, they offered over 1,500 hours of activity to children and families at 35 venues across Sheffield during summer 2019.
- 90 children and young people from 9 schools took part in the Sheffield Hallam and Sheffield CU Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds celebration event at the University in June. The Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds 'Project in a Box' provided fun, engaging after school activities which were designed to help boost young people's confidence and wellbeing and support them to develop healthy and happy relationships with other people.
- 8 activities were funded through the Sheffield CU Acorn Fund which enables children and young people to bid for funds to develop, sustain or re-invigorate a CU activity in school. Activities funded in this round included a basketball, slime club, switch club (SEND), art club, cooking club, gardening club and a sign language club
- 36 children and young people invited to attend our 1000 hr graduation experience for achieving their Gold Fellowship Award, the highest CU honour. They were invited to experience a ‘real’ graduation during graduation week at Sheffield Hallam University and had the opportunity to follow the graduation journey of a student, try on University caps and gowns, were presented with outstanding achievement awards and had official photos and a toast.
- 1 Women of Sheffield Mary Anne Rawson education award was won by Katie in March for her work building and developing Sheffield CU over the last ten years. Katie was so proud to be nominated, but to win was a real honour especially in the name of Mary Anne Rawson, an anti-slavery campaigner who selflessly dedicated her time to the education and aid of the less fortunate in Sheffield and set up the first school in Wincobank, along with many other achievements!
- £95,000 pledged by the South Yorkshire Mayor Dan Jarvis to support the expansion of our successful Sheffield Children's University model across South Yorkshire. This work, led by Katie and Helen through Sheffield Hallam University has already resulted in the creation of a brand new Children's University in Rotherham, led by Rotherham School Improvement Service who are currently working with 13 schools and are developing their Passport to Learning offer too. It will also support the future developments of the existing Children's University centres in Doncaster and here in Sheffield too as well as support the set-up of another brand new CU centre in Barnsley.
- 26 schools have signed up to take part in the Sheffield Theatres Project in a Box, which provides schools with a specially commissioned script that doesn’t have an ending! Schools will develop and deliver a CU theatres club and give children and young people the opportunity to grow their character, storytelling and performance techniques by completing the play. They will then come together and have the opportunity to perform their version on the Crucible stage next summer
- And a partridge in a pear treeeee!☺
Finally, we want to take this opportunity to say a HUGE thank you to you, along with all our colleagues, schools, Learning Destinations and partners for supporting our work and ensuring the children and young people of our wonderful city are celebrated and rewarded for their achievements.
We hope you enjoy the festive season, have a restful break and look forward to seeing you in the new year.
Merry Christmas!
Katie, Helen, Sakina, Laura and Amy
The Sheffield CU Team
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